| JonathanD | Morning. | 10:37 |
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| rmg51 | morning JonathanD | 10:40 |
| JonathanD | hey rmg51 | 10:40 |
| rmg51 | o/ | 10:41 |
| InHisName | Morning everyone | 13:36 |
| InHisName | Isn't it wonderful ?? It is FRIDAY! It's Friday. | 14:09 |
| teddy-dbear | o/ | 14:09 |
| InHisName | teddy-dbear has transformed into a BOT! | 14:09 |
| teddy-dbear | one day before the end of the world ;-) | 14:10 |
| ChinnoDog | hi peeps | 15:40 |
| teddy-dbear | o/ | 15:41 |
| ssweeny | wassup ChinnoDog | 15:44 |
| ChinnoDog | nuffin much. Got me a mexican hot chocolate and an apple danish. | 15:45 |
| ssweeny | nice | 15:51 |
| ChinnoDog | ssweeny: What do you do for Canonical now? | 16:08 |
| ssweeny | ChinnoDog, i'm in the OEM solutions group | 16:09 |
| ssweeny | basically i customize ubuntu for new hardware | 16:09 |
| ChinnoDog | For whose hardware? | 16:10 |
| ssweeny | can't say | 16:11 |
| ssweeny | well, i can say that for instance my group created the netbook interface for the dell mini | 16:12 |
| ssweeny | so things like that | 16:12 |
| ChinnoDog | Ah. So, you are customizing it for vendors. That is what I wanted to know. | 16:13 |
| ChinnoDog | Do they pay you to do this or does Canonical do this to push Ubuntu? | 16:13 |
| ssweeny | both i guess | 16:13 |
| ssweeny | some of the stuff ends up in ubuntu | 16:14 |
| ssweeny | like unity-2d, which i believe came out of the oem group | 16:14 |
| ChinnoDog | But I mean when someone like Dell wants to sell a laptop with Ubuntu do they pay your group to cut them an Ubuntu image/install or does Canonical volunteer to make one so Dell can ship Ubuntu? | 16:15 |
| ChinnoDog | i.e. Who is actually paying your salary? | 16:16 |
| ssweeny | i believe that dell pays for the customization | 16:22 |
| ssweeny | but i've only been here a week so what do i know? | 16:22 |
| ChinnoDog | ssweeny: are you doing ARM builds? | 16:36 |
| ssweeny | ChinnoDog, not at the moment. why? | 16:36 |
| ChinnoDog | Just wondering | 16:36 |
| ChinnoDog | Any non x86 architectures? | 16:36 |
| ssweeny | ubuntu already has ports to arm and powerpc | 16:37 |
| ssweeny | and debian has a ton more | 16:37 |
| ssweeny | actually the ubuntu powerpc port may be unmaintained now | 16:38 |
| ChinnoDog | I meant your group. ARe you doing non x86 customizations? | 16:40 |
| ChinnoDog | AMD is releasing a 128-bit CPU this year? Sweet. | 16:46 |
| ChinnoDog | When can I get Ubuntu 128-bit edition? | 16:47 |
| ChinnoDog | MS is working on 128-bit Win 8. | 16:50 |
| * ChinnoDog expects Ubuntu 128-bit released tomorrow | 16:50 | |
| * ssweeny gets right on that | 16:54 | |
| ChinnoDog | \o/ | 16:55 |
| JonathanD | I want 640-bit | 16:55 |
| JonathanD | that ought to be enough for anyone. | 16:55 |
| ChinnoDog | Oh. Its not just this year, its next month. http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20110307165713_AMD_Finalizes_Shipment_Dates_for_Next_Gen_Chips.html | 17:25 |
| PennBot | Title: AMD Finalizes Shipment Dates for Next-Gen Chips - X-bit labs (at www.xbitlabs.com) | 17:25 |
| ssweeny | man we just got 64-bit working right on the desktop | 17:27 |
| ChinnoDog | Good. This can be an excercise in portability. The same things that make the 64-bit version work should make 128-bit work, correct? | 17:30 |
| ChinnoDog | There isn't a whole lot of 64-bit only software but there is 32-bit, so just need to write the compatibility library for running 32-bit code on 128-bit CPU and it should be pretty much the same experience. | 17:31 |
| * ssweeny does not really see the utility of a 128-bit cpu at this point | 17:34 | |
| ssweeny | all it will really do is bloat software | 17:34 |
| ChinnoDog | I can't tell if there are x86-128 instructions. Maybe the architecture is 128-bit but the instructions are still 64-bit. | 17:42 |
| ChinnoDog | Theoretically having a 128-bit wide data path should allow you to process 64-bit instructions twice as fast, right? | 17:43 |
| ssweeny | it's not just the instructions | 17:44 |
| ssweeny | you also have pointers and ints | 17:44 |
| pleia2 | and monkeys and daffodils | 18:28 |
| ssweeny | those too | 18:29 |
| teddy-dbear | no unicorns? | 18:31 |
| pleia2 | unicorns are unrelated | 18:33 |
| ssweeny | unicorns are orthogonal to instruction set size | 18:35 |
| ssweeny | everyone knows that | 18:35 |
| teddy-dbear | how about cookies? | 19:05 |
| teddy-dbear | cookies are good anytime :-[ | 19:05 |
| ssweeny | cookies are apparently a sometimes food | 19:08 |
| teddy-dbear | cookies are an anytime food :-D | 19:20 |
| ssweeny | that's what i thought | 19:25 |
| ChinnoDog | cookies++ | 19:53 |
| ChinnoDog | I could use a nap | 19:58 |
| ssweeny | naps++ | 20:02 |
| pleia2 | naps++ | 20:02 |
| teddy-dbear | cookies++ | 20:11 |
| teddy-dbear | naps++ | 20:11 |
| teddy-dbear | cookies then a nap :-D | 20:12 |
| ChinnoDog | so sleepy | 20:26 |
| * ChinnoDog slaps ChinnoDog around a bit with a large trout | 20:26 | |
| ChinnoDog | What are you all up to this weekend? | 22:21 |
| rmg51 | PACS on Sat. | 22:26 |
| rmg51 | if the world doesn't end first | 22:26 |
| waltman | The world isn't ending until 6 PM, so you've got plenty of time to his PACS first. | 22:28 |
| rmg51 | just in time for dinner | 22:30 |
| ChinnoDog | So.. Why is the rapture tomorrow? | 22:32 |
| rmg51 | some dumbass said so :-/ | 22:33 |
| rmg51 | dinner time | 22:33 |
| jedijf | ChinnoDog: noah's ark anniversary, i believe | 22:35 |
| ChinnoDog | lol. I'm reading the wikipedia page on it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_end_times_prediction | 22:41 |
| PennBot | Title: 2011 end times prediction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (at en.wikipedia.org) | 22:41 |
| ChinnoDog | hehe. Rapture Relief Fund! | 22:43 |
| waltman | Wow, his argument for it being 7000 years after the flood is a bit dubious. | 22:55 |
| jedijf | @seen mutantturkey | 23:24 |
| PennBot | jedijf: mutantturkey was last seen in #ubuntu-us-pa 2 weeks, 1 day, 20 hours, 42 minutes, and 10 seconds ago: <MutantTurkey> what can you do with the new 11.04? even less than the 8.10! | 23:24 |
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